80 year old still uses Macintosh Plus and ImageWriter II

Here you go. Boing Boing on a Mac Plus:

I bought this Mac Plus in 1995 for $40 from a local thrift shop, and up until 1998 it was in active use by my college roommates and friends who would carry it around the house and use it with Microsoft Word 4.0 for various writing assignments.

It sat in storage from 1999 to 2017, until I pulled it out of a box in my parents’ attic. It’s now set up with an SD Card “hard drive” and a Raspberry Pi for network access. There’s no hard drive or fan, so it’s completely silent, and the keyboard is amazing to type on.

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